Member of the congregation of the Someschi Fathers, Carlo Guadagni was a professor of sacred teology and a writer and he was the leader of the sanctuary of Cimitile from 1675 to 1688…. therefore he was a wall know persone to all people here Cimitile.
Born in 1608 from Giovanni Guadagni and Brannoia Riccardo, he was baptized in 1616. He was the first to create a kind of tourists guide for tourists to the Sanctuary of Cimitile entitled “Breve relation e modo di visitar S.Cimiterio e le cinque basiliche di san Felice in Pincis o terra di Cimitino”. He also wrote some epigraphes, that he exposed in the basilica as if they were some signs in order to point out the points of interest to all the believers and visitors. Among the varius epigraphes it is remembered the one on the North wall of the Basilica of San Tommaso realized in the 1686. The next preceded by a cross with polybobate ends is articuled on seven lines. Another inscription is engraved on the bottom of the lunar protiro of the chapell of the SS. Martiri.
Another is still outside the Basilica of S. Felice and it has written on it: “Il primo campanile della xpanita”, alluding to the ball tower that became the symbol of the entire complex. In total the epigraphes written by Guadagni had to be twelve but some of them have been lost. Thanks to his works and his contribution to the knowledge of the basilicas,he was choseen to name a cultural istitute….our school which is named after him.
The basilical complex of Cimitile currently includes seven buildings. The most important is the Basilica of Saint Felice, born after the deposition of Saint Felice. The grave was very simple and goes back to the III century a.C. When during the Empire it [...]
